Jew with a coin: Difference between revisions

According to a 2015 survey in Poland, 65% of respondents identify the figurines and 18% of respondents had such a figurine at home; recognition of the symbol does not vary with respondent age, indicating that the practice started recently.<ref name="Tartakowsky">[https://laviedesidees.fr/IMG/pdf/20170110_tartakowskyjuifargent.pdf Tartakowsky, Ewa. ''Le Juif à la pièce d’argent.'' (French) La vie des idées (2017).]<br/> [https://booksandideas.net/The-Jew-with-the-Silver-Coin.html The Jew with the Gold Coin (English translation), Ewa Tartakowsky translated by Arianne Dorval, 24 April 2017]</ref> Another survey from that year suggested that about 18% of the surveyed own a related product. About 50% of the surveyed correctly identified the motif with financial success; others pointed more generally to it being a 'lucky symbol', or just to it being a folk decoration.<ref name=dobr/> However the practice is very limited in Poland and doesn't have wide popularity with only{{failed verification|reason=Source states the "magical rituals" associated with the figurines is not yet establish as an "automatic practice" and has a lower popularity than the widely recognizable images themselves" - heck "only 19%" is a self-contradiction in and of itself... In this case the source contradicts this.|date=May 2019}} 19% of Poles surveyed possessing such item and 16% confirming its use.<ref name=dobr/>